My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James is going solo for the first time with new album “Regions of Light and Sound of God,” available Feb. 5. And he’s taking the new music on the road for a solo tour that includes a performance at the Pabst Theater April 19.

Audiences at opera singers' recitals do not, customarily, pump their arms and cheer. Of course, singers at said recitals don't usually perform tunes by Queen and Guns N' Roses flanked by a quartet of female horn players, either.